It stands as a perpetual symbol of the Manhattan skyline, New York City’s energy and our skyscraper inventiveness." Willis is the author of the 2007 book "Building the Empire State" and the ...

This week on Empire State Weekly, setting sights on higher education. With the state budget due April 1, advocates headed to the New York State Capitol pushing for increased funding to make ...

There are few places on earth, if any, that have more bucket-list items to cross off than New York City: the Empire State Building, Times Square, the Metropolitan Museum of Art—you’ve heard of ...

A former aide who accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment in a federal lawsuit has filed another lawsuit against the Empire State. Charlotte Bennett, a former New York state ...

The 86th Floor Observatory at the Empire State Building; the Empire State Building; an assortment of Princi® pastries and ...

The numbers: The New York Fed’s Empire State business conditions index, a gauge of manufacturing activity in the state, fell 18.8 points to negative 24.6 in March , the regional Fed bank said ...

New York has created a cigarette-smuggling empire, and the worst is yet to come. It’s the unavoidable consequence of the state’s decadeslong history of raising the cigarette tax, which Gov.

The Empire State Building has been surpassed by many skyscrapers in height but stands above all others in public imagination. The masterpiece American landmark was the brainchild of Alfred E. Smith, ...